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"content": "\u003cp>Volunteers fanned out in cities across California and the U.S. this week for a head count of the nation’s homeless population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Los Angeles County, the three-day effort involved thousands of people searching hundreds of square miles from downtown L.A.’s Skid Row to the semi-rural desert towns of the Antelope Valley. How many people are counted helps determine where federal dollars are spent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the first night of the count in West Covina south of Los Angeles, Angel Espinoza and three other volunteers slowly prowled a dark riverside access road in a minivan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Yeah, it looks like an entrance. And I’ll open it up with a key and then we can go up in there,” said Espinoza, spotting a locked gate at the top of the access road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/188481384\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the night’s search went like this, slowly cruising streets and back alleys by car with the occasional hike through a park or secluded river bottom. Street maps and flashlights helped guide the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah, OK, let me get out and see,” said Espinoza, climbing out of the van with a jumble of keys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got the key to every gate along every creek and river in the county,” he laughed. “I’m very familiar with riverbeds. I’m in ‘em all day long.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because Espinoza is on the streets a lot as an outreach worker with the \u003ca title=\"LAHSA\" href=\"http://www.lahsa.org/\">L.A. Homeless Services Authority’s \u003c/a>emergency response team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He grew up in West Covina but hasn’t been back in a long time. So it’s a good thing Frederick Sykes happened to be riding shotgun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sykes directed the van’s driver where to go to find homeless hot spots in parks or outside liquor stores and 7-Elevens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wearing a white hoodie and munching on sunflower seeds, Sykes said he’s lived here since the late '70s. He also happens to be the mayor of \u003ca title=\"City of West Covina\" href=\"http://www.westcovina.org/\">West Covina\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As the mayor of the city, you’re constantly trying to make life better for everybody. And that includes the homeless because they’re a resource,” said Sykes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"8mO5t15CAzABkqd7HP1421Os7xM7cznR\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just a matter of how do we get so they can function better. We know we need a place to house them, something that’s humane.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guidelines for the homeless count are precise. You stay within a pre-assigned “zone.” If you see someone you think is homeless, you jot down the basics; male, female, adult, child and so on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Same thing goes for a car or RV that looks like it is being lived in. We spotted several of those. There are telltale signs like belongings piled to a car’s ceiling, or windshields blocked with dirty linens or cardboard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Volunteers are discouraged from talking to or disturbing a person they believe is homeless. That means volunteer counters can’t actually be sure if a person is homeless or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's an imperfect science, but part of a national effort that nonetheless gives federal authorities a better snapshot of where people are and how they’re living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Todd Palmquist, from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sgvconsortium.net/\">San Gabriel Valley Consortium on Homelessness\u003c/a>, said L.A. County will delve a little deeper with a face-to-face survey next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And at that point they will actually interview individuals and talk to them,” said Palmquist. “You ask a lot more about living conditions, and if they are a veteran and those kinds of things. This one tonight is just strictly a count.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Results from this week’s three-day count and the upcoming L.A. County homeless survey should be available by the summer.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>La reciente acción ejecutiva del Presidente Obama podría abrir el camino hacia la permanencia legal para varios millones de inmigrantes en los Estados Unidos. Esta situación ha puesto en alerta a las autoridades que anticipan una oleada de estafas contra las personas que buscan consejo legal. No sólo podrán los inmigrantes perder miles de dólares por tales estafas, sino que también pueden ponerse en mayor riesgo de deportación gracias a ellas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel Sharp comenta que a su despacho llegan todo el tiempo inmigrantes a contarle cómo resultaron engañados por personas que se hacían pasar por abogados de inmigración o consultores licenciados.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"9cjAemoi3bXtEn3ND2EU62FNgw5H0ILB\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Es prácticamente el delito perfecto”, indica Sharp, quien es director legal del Centro de Recursos Centroamericanos en Los Ángeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cuando un individuo cae víctima, con el tiempo se da cuenta de lo que ha pasado, y pueden haber pasado meses y hasta años después del momento inicial en el que le pagó al supuesto abogado por el servicio legal”, explica Sharp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Y el porcentaje de personas que en realidad se presentan a quejarse es mínimo comparado con el número de personas que cae víctima del fraude”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Es por esta razón que Sharp intenta difundir la información sobre estas estafas a las personas ansiosas de solicitar la protección contra la deportación bajo la acción ejecutiva de Obama con presentar talleres en la sede del \u003ca href=\"http://www.carecen-la.org/faq-notarios/\" target=\"_blank\">Central American Resource Center\u003c/a> en Los Ángeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En una noche reciente, unas 150 personas se amontonaron en una de las salas de reunión del Centro. La presentación incluye detalles sobre los cambios que habrá bajo la acción ejecutiva que podrían permitir que algunos inmigrantes indocumentados, incluyendo aquellos que tienen hijos que son ciudadanos estadounidenses, permanezcan legalmente en los Estados Unidos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10414258\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/ImmigrantScams1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10414258\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/ImmigrantScams1-400x263.jpg\" alt=\"Director legal del Central American Resource Center Daniel Sharp dirige un taller cuyo fin es informar a los inmigrantes sobre la reciente acción ejecutiva del Presidente Obama.\" width=\"400\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/ImmigrantScams1-400x263.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/ImmigrantScams1-800x526.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/ImmigrantScams1.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Director legal del Central American Resource Center Daniel Sharp dirige un taller cuyo fin es informar a los inmigrantes sobre la reciente acción ejecutiva del Presidente Obama. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>También se advierte cautela para evitar a los abogados y consultores legales depredadores que pueden cobrar altas sumas de dinero por servicios que no requieren los inmigrantes y que podrían incluso perjudicarlos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero para muchos inmigrantes, las advertencias llegan muy tarde.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Una señora de El Salvador, cuyo nombre es María, residente de la ciudad de Bell, explica que ella y su esposo perdieron más de $5.000 en ahorros a una organización sin fines de lucro en Los Ángeles llamada \u003ca href=\"http://www.coalicionla.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Coalición Latinoamericana Internacional\u003c/a>. María pidió que no reveláramos su apellido por su estatus legal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Con panfletos a todo brillo y propagandas llamativas en español en los periódicos, la coalición alega ser defensora acérrima de los derechos del inmigrante y proveedora muy hábil de servicios legales. María dice que el director de la coalición, Oswaldo Cabrera, prometió ayudar a su esposo, Dore, quien es residente permanente legal, hacerse ciudadano de los EE.UU., y después ayudar a conseguirle a ella estatus legal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Comenzamos a darle dinero y dinero y dinero”, explica María, quien indica que tuvo por semanas a la pareja con promesas falsas, una pesadilla de trámites confusos y audiencias de inmigración.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yo comencé a desconfiar”, explica María.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pero (Cabrera) nos amenazó, diciendo que no había que jugar con él porque él es abogado. Y que si no jugábamos según sus reglas, haría que nos deporten”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>María dice que cuando intentó hacer que le devolviera el dinero a la pareja, Cabrera se negó. A comienzos de este mes, María y su esposo entablaron una demanda contra él.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La Coalición Latinoamericana Internacional opera en una suite de pequeñas oficinas en un rascacielos de Los Ángeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuando me aparezco yo sin aviso una tarde, hay un puñado de personas sentadas sobre sofás raídos en la recepción.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10414261\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Coalicion1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Coalicion1-400x456.jpg\" alt=\"Un anuncio de la Coalición Latinoamericana Internacional, una organización sin fines de lucro de consultoría legal que también alega ser defensora de los derechos del inmigrante. La Coalición se encuentra enfrentada con varias demandas y quejas de consumidor de parte de varios clientes.\" width=\"400\" height=\"456\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10414261\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Coalicion1-400x456.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Coalicion1-800x912.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Coalicion1.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Un anuncio de la Coalición Latinoamericana Internacional, una organización sin fines de lucro de consultoría legal que también alega ser defensora de los derechos del inmigrante. La Coalición se encuentra enfrentada con varias demandas y quejas de consumidor de parte de varios clientes. \u003ccite>(Coalición Latinoamericana Internacional))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cabrera interrumpe una reunión que sostiene con un par de clientes y me invita entrar a su oficina. Alega tener una especie de licencia internacional que le permite ofrecer consejo legal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sí, de la profesión legal”, dice Cabrera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuando se le pide mostrar tal licencia, no puede.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>También alega ser director de una organización sin fines de lucro en regla con el estado de California. Esto no lo corrobora la Oficina de la Secretaría del Estado de California. Recientemente la Secretaría le revocó la licencia de organización sin fines de lucro a Cabrera. Cuando le presento a Cabrera una página del sitio web de la Secretaría que indica su suspensión, alega que la información es errónea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No, no”, dice Cabrera.\u003cbr>\n“Esto se detuvo, ya no existe”, explica.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tampoco aparece en el sitio web el nombre de Cabrera ni de su organización en una búsqueda de consultores de inmigración afianzados por la Secretaría del Estado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Una llamada de seguimiento a un representante de la Secretaría del Estado confirma que Cabrera no cuenta con licencia legal para operar como consultor legal remunerado ni como abogado para inmigrantes. En cuanto a la demanda contra Cabrera entablada por sus ex clientes María y su esposo, Cabrera dice que no la ha visto y no podía comentar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Otra demanda entablada el año pasado por otro ex cliente presenta, entre otras cosas, que Cabrera abandonó al señor len a víspera de una audiencia de deportación — prometiéndole sin cumplir los servicios de un abogado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No es cierto, no es cierto, porque el tipo está viviendo en este país”, dice Cabrera. “No es deportación, nunca. Esta información está equivocada”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Según el abogado del demandante, el juicio está activo y pendiente.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Además de las demandas contra él, Cabrera tiene en su contra varias quejas ante el Departamento de Asuntos del Consumidor del condado de Los Ángeles. No queda claro si esta dependencia tomará alguna acción contra él.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">“Si lo propuesto parece demasiado bueno como para ser cierto, lo probable es que sea fraude”\u003ccite>Brian Stiger, el director del Departamento de Asuntos del Consumidor del condado de Los Ángeles\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>El director del Departamento, Brian Stiger, dice que la oficina misma envía advertencias de fraude a los servicios de inmigración mediante conferencias de prensa, talleres y otras medidas de extensión al público.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Si lo propuesto parece demasiado bueno como para ser cierto, lo probable es que sea fraude”, asevera Stiger, quien indica que hay muchos estafadores que harán promesas imposibles referentes al remedio de la deportación que ofrece Obama, cuando en realidad el proceso de solicitud no comienza sino dentro de unos meses más. Los consultores legales delictivos también pueden hacer cobros exhorbitantes por trámites que los inmigrantes pueden hacer por su cuenta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No hay manera de adelantarse en la cola, ni tampoco hay garantía que se apruebe una solicitud”, explica Stiger. “Y muchas veces estos consultores de temas migratorios, de hecho los que son fraudulentos, cobran más que lo que cuesta presentar la solicitud”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://da.lacounty.gov/immigration.htm\" target=\"_blank\">La Oficina del Fiscal General del Condado de Los Ángeles\u003c/a>, el fiscal de la ciudad de Los Ángeles y el fiscal general de Los Ángeles prometen tomar medidas contra los que ofrecen servicios fraudulentos de inmigración.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La Oficina del Fiscal de la ciudad de Los Ángeles también ofrecerá una serie de asambleas públicas en varios idiomas a realizarse en las próximas semanas, en las que los inmigrantes tendrán acceso sin costo a ayuda de abogados y consultores licenciados para llenar los formularios.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abogado de inmigración de Los Ángeles, Clemente Franco, explica que los defraudadores han operado durante años y que sus operaciones son bastante sofisticadas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hay algunas organizaciones que cuentan con 10 o 15 sucursales”, comenta Franco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Dicen que son activistas en defensa de los derechos del inmigrante, lo cual les da un aire de credibilidad, cuando en un sentido lo que son en realidad son lobos dentro de la comunidad”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lobos que en realidad se valen del hecho que con frecuencia sus víctimas temen presentar una queja por motivo de su estatus legal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero María, inmigrante de El Salvador, dice que tenía que poner la mano al fuego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Para que otros no caigan en el mismo problema”, explica. “Y que la gente haga un poquito más de investigación, para no caer en la misma trampa”.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>La reciente acción ejecutiva del Presidente Obama podría abrir el camino hacia la permanencia legal para varios millones de inmigrantes en los Estados Unidos. Esta situación ha puesto en alerta a las autoridades que anticipan una oleada de estafas contra las personas que buscan consejo legal. No sólo podrán los inmigrantes perder miles de dólares por tales estafas, sino que también pueden ponerse en mayor riesgo de deportación gracias a ellas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel Sharp comenta que a su despacho llegan todo el tiempo inmigrantes a contarle cómo resultaron engañados por personas que se hacían pasar por abogados de inmigración o consultores licenciados.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Es prácticamente el delito perfecto”, indica Sharp, quien es director legal del Centro de Recursos Centroamericanos en Los Ángeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cuando un individuo cae víctima, con el tiempo se da cuenta de lo que ha pasado, y pueden haber pasado meses y hasta años después del momento inicial en el que le pagó al supuesto abogado por el servicio legal”, explica Sharp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Y el porcentaje de personas que en realidad se presentan a quejarse es mínimo comparado con el número de personas que cae víctima del fraude”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Es por esta razón que Sharp intenta difundir la información sobre estas estafas a las personas ansiosas de solicitar la protección contra la deportación bajo la acción ejecutiva de Obama con presentar talleres en la sede del \u003ca href=\"http://www.carecen-la.org/faq-notarios/\" target=\"_blank\">Central American Resource Center\u003c/a> en Los Ángeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En una noche reciente, unas 150 personas se amontonaron en una de las salas de reunión del Centro. La presentación incluye detalles sobre los cambios que habrá bajo la acción ejecutiva que podrían permitir que algunos inmigrantes indocumentados, incluyendo aquellos que tienen hijos que son ciudadanos estadounidenses, permanezcan legalmente en los Estados Unidos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10414258\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/ImmigrantScams1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10414258\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/ImmigrantScams1-400x263.jpg\" alt=\"Director legal del Central American Resource Center Daniel Sharp dirige un taller cuyo fin es informar a los inmigrantes sobre la reciente acción ejecutiva del Presidente Obama.\" width=\"400\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/ImmigrantScams1-400x263.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/ImmigrantScams1-800x526.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/ImmigrantScams1.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Director legal del Central American Resource Center Daniel Sharp dirige un taller cuyo fin es informar a los inmigrantes sobre la reciente acción ejecutiva del Presidente Obama. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>También se advierte cautela para evitar a los abogados y consultores legales depredadores que pueden cobrar altas sumas de dinero por servicios que no requieren los inmigrantes y que podrían incluso perjudicarlos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero para muchos inmigrantes, las advertencias llegan muy tarde.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Una señora de El Salvador, cuyo nombre es María, residente de la ciudad de Bell, explica que ella y su esposo perdieron más de $5.000 en ahorros a una organización sin fines de lucro en Los Ángeles llamada \u003ca href=\"http://www.coalicionla.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Coalición Latinoamericana Internacional\u003c/a>. María pidió que no reveláramos su apellido por su estatus legal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Con panfletos a todo brillo y propagandas llamativas en español en los periódicos, la coalición alega ser defensora acérrima de los derechos del inmigrante y proveedora muy hábil de servicios legales. María dice que el director de la coalición, Oswaldo Cabrera, prometió ayudar a su esposo, Dore, quien es residente permanente legal, hacerse ciudadano de los EE.UU., y después ayudar a conseguirle a ella estatus legal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Comenzamos a darle dinero y dinero y dinero”, explica María, quien indica que tuvo por semanas a la pareja con promesas falsas, una pesadilla de trámites confusos y audiencias de inmigración.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yo comencé a desconfiar”, explica María.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pero (Cabrera) nos amenazó, diciendo que no había que jugar con él porque él es abogado. Y que si no jugábamos según sus reglas, haría que nos deporten”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>María dice que cuando intentó hacer que le devolviera el dinero a la pareja, Cabrera se negó. A comienzos de este mes, María y su esposo entablaron una demanda contra él.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La Coalición Latinoamericana Internacional opera en una suite de pequeñas oficinas en un rascacielos de Los Ángeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuando me aparezco yo sin aviso una tarde, hay un puñado de personas sentadas sobre sofás raídos en la recepción.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10414261\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Coalicion1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Coalicion1-400x456.jpg\" alt=\"Un anuncio de la Coalición Latinoamericana Internacional, una organización sin fines de lucro de consultoría legal que también alega ser defensora de los derechos del inmigrante. La Coalición se encuentra enfrentada con varias demandas y quejas de consumidor de parte de varios clientes.\" width=\"400\" height=\"456\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10414261\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Coalicion1-400x456.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Coalicion1-800x912.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Coalicion1.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Un anuncio de la Coalición Latinoamericana Internacional, una organización sin fines de lucro de consultoría legal que también alega ser defensora de los derechos del inmigrante. La Coalición se encuentra enfrentada con varias demandas y quejas de consumidor de parte de varios clientes. \u003ccite>(Coalición Latinoamericana Internacional))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cabrera interrumpe una reunión que sostiene con un par de clientes y me invita entrar a su oficina. Alega tener una especie de licencia internacional que le permite ofrecer consejo legal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sí, de la profesión legal”, dice Cabrera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuando se le pide mostrar tal licencia, no puede.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>También alega ser director de una organización sin fines de lucro en regla con el estado de California. Esto no lo corrobora la Oficina de la Secretaría del Estado de California. Recientemente la Secretaría le revocó la licencia de organización sin fines de lucro a Cabrera. Cuando le presento a Cabrera una página del sitio web de la Secretaría que indica su suspensión, alega que la información es errónea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No, no”, dice Cabrera.\u003cbr>\n“Esto se detuvo, ya no existe”, explica.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tampoco aparece en el sitio web el nombre de Cabrera ni de su organización en una búsqueda de consultores de inmigración afianzados por la Secretaría del Estado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Una llamada de seguimiento a un representante de la Secretaría del Estado confirma que Cabrera no cuenta con licencia legal para operar como consultor legal remunerado ni como abogado para inmigrantes. En cuanto a la demanda contra Cabrera entablada por sus ex clientes María y su esposo, Cabrera dice que no la ha visto y no podía comentar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Otra demanda entablada el año pasado por otro ex cliente presenta, entre otras cosas, que Cabrera abandonó al señor len a víspera de una audiencia de deportación — prometiéndole sin cumplir los servicios de un abogado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No es cierto, no es cierto, porque el tipo está viviendo en este país”, dice Cabrera. “No es deportación, nunca. Esta información está equivocada”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Según el abogado del demandante, el juicio está activo y pendiente.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Además de las demandas contra él, Cabrera tiene en su contra varias quejas ante el Departamento de Asuntos del Consumidor del condado de Los Ángeles. No queda claro si esta dependencia tomará alguna acción contra él.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">“Si lo propuesto parece demasiado bueno como para ser cierto, lo probable es que sea fraude”\u003ccite>Brian Stiger, el director del Departamento de Asuntos del Consumidor del condado de Los Ángeles\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>El director del Departamento, Brian Stiger, dice que la oficina misma envía advertencias de fraude a los servicios de inmigración mediante conferencias de prensa, talleres y otras medidas de extensión al público.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Si lo propuesto parece demasiado bueno como para ser cierto, lo probable es que sea fraude”, asevera Stiger, quien indica que hay muchos estafadores que harán promesas imposibles referentes al remedio de la deportación que ofrece Obama, cuando en realidad el proceso de solicitud no comienza sino dentro de unos meses más. Los consultores legales delictivos también pueden hacer cobros exhorbitantes por trámites que los inmigrantes pueden hacer por su cuenta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No hay manera de adelantarse en la cola, ni tampoco hay garantía que se apruebe una solicitud”, explica Stiger. “Y muchas veces estos consultores de temas migratorios, de hecho los que son fraudulentos, cobran más que lo que cuesta presentar la solicitud”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://da.lacounty.gov/immigration.htm\" target=\"_blank\">La Oficina del Fiscal General del Condado de Los Ángeles\u003c/a>, el fiscal de la ciudad de Los Ángeles y el fiscal general de Los Ángeles prometen tomar medidas contra los que ofrecen servicios fraudulentos de inmigración.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La Oficina del Fiscal de la ciudad de Los Ángeles también ofrecerá una serie de asambleas públicas en varios idiomas a realizarse en las próximas semanas, en las que los inmigrantes tendrán acceso sin costo a ayuda de abogados y consultores licenciados para llenar los formularios.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abogado de inmigración de Los Ángeles, Clemente Franco, explica que los defraudadores han operado durante años y que sus operaciones son bastante sofisticadas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hay algunas organizaciones que cuentan con 10 o 15 sucursales”, comenta Franco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Dicen que son activistas en defensa de los derechos del inmigrante, lo cual les da un aire de credibilidad, cuando en un sentido lo que son en realidad son lobos dentro de la comunidad”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lobos que en realidad se valen del hecho que con frecuencia sus víctimas temen presentar una queja por motivo de su estatus legal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero María, inmigrante de El Salvador, dice que tenía que poner la mano al fuego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/186974583\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Barack Obama’s recent executive action on immigration could pave the way for several million undocumented immigrants to remain in the U.S. legally. And that has authorities bracing for a wave of scams targeting people seeking legal advice. Not only can immigrants lose thousands of dollars in such schemes, but they can also put themselves at greater risk of deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel Sharp says immigrants show up at his office all the time with stories of how they were fleeced by people passing themselves off as immigration attorneys or licensed consultants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"UCTzdl4jLsovaCWPLD990BGMiy2JTdVU\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s almost the perfect crime,” says Sharp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sharp is the legal director of the Central American Resource Center in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When someone falls victim and then eventually realizes what’s happened, it can often be months or years from the time that they initially paid the non-attorney for the legal service,” says Sharp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And the percentage of people who actually come forward is minuscule compared to the number of people who actually fall victim to the problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why Sharp is trying to spread the word about such scams to people eager to apply for protection from deportation under Obama’s executive action at regular immigration workshops at the \u003ca title=\"Central American Resource Center\" href=\"http://www.carecen-la.org/\">Central American Resource Center’s \u003c/a>L.A. headquarters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10411799\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 484px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/ImmigrantScams.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-10411799\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/ImmigrantScams-400x262.jpg\" alt=\"Central American Resource Center legal director Daniel Sharp leads a workshop aimed at educating immigrants about President Obama’s recent executive action.\" width=\"484\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/ImmigrantScams-400x262.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/ImmigrantScams-800x525.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/ImmigrantScams.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 484px) 100vw, 484px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Central American Resource Center legal director Daniel Sharp leads a workshop aimed at educating immigrants about President Obama’s recent executive action. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On a recent weeknight about 150 people packed into one of the center’s meeting rooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The presentation includes details of changes coming under executive action that could enable some undocumented immigrants, including those with children who are U.S. citizens, to remain in the U.S. legally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are also stark warnings about avoiding predatory attorneys and legal consultants who may take large sums of money for services that immigrants do not need and that may actually end up hurting their cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for many immigrants, it's too late for warnings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Salvadoran woman named Maria, who lives in the city of Bell, says she and her husband lost more than $5,000 in savings to an L.A. nonprofit called \u003ca title=\"Coalicion Latinoamericana Internacional\" href=\"http://www.coalicionla.org/\">Coalicion Latinoamericana Internacional\u003c/a>. Maria asked that we not use her last name because of her legal status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In glossy pamphlets and in splashy Spanish-language newspaper ads, the group claims to be a staunch advocate of immigrant rights and a savvy legal services provider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maria says the group’s director, Oswaldo Cabrera, promised to help her husband, Dore, a legal permanent resident, become a naturalized U.S. citizen and then help attain legal status for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We began to give him money and money and money,” explains Maria in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10411795\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 425px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Coalicion.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-10411795\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Coalicion-400x455.jpg\" alt=\"An ad for Coalicion Latinoamericana Internacional, a nonprofit legal consultancy that also claims to be an immigrant rights advocate. The Coalicion is facing numerous lawsuits and consumer complaints from former clients.\" width=\"425\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Coalicion-400x455.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Coalicion-800x911.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Coalicion.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An ad for Coalicion Latinoamericana Internacional, a nonprofit legal consultancy that also claims to be an immigrant rights advocate. The Coalicion is facing numerous lawsuits and consumer complaints from former clients. \u003ccite>(Coalicion Latinoamericana Internacional)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Maria says the couple was strung along for weeks with false promises, in a nightmare of bungled paperwork and immigration hearings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was getting suspicious,” says Maria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But (Cabrera) threatened us, saying that he wasn’t to be played with because he was an attorney. And that if we didn’t play by his rules, he could have us deported.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maria says that when she tried to get the couple’s money back, Cabrera refused. Earlier this month, she and her husband sued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coalicion Latinoamericana Internacional operates out of a suite of cramped offices in an L.A. high-rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I show up unannounced one afternoon, a handful of people are sitting on threadbare sofas in a reception area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cabrera interrupts a meeting with a couple of clients and invites me into his office. He claims to hold some kind of international license that allows him to dole out legal advice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah, in the law profession,” says Cabrera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked to provide that license, he can’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cabrera also claims to run a nonprofit in good standing with the state of California. Not according to the California Secretary of State’s Office. It recently yanked Cabrera’s nonprofit status. When I present Cabrera with a page from the secretary’s website showing his suspension, he claims the information is wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No, no,” says Cabrera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is stopped, this is no more,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nor does Cabrera’s name or the name of his organization come up on a search of bonded immigration consultants at the secretary of state website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A follow-up call to a California secretary of state representative confirms that Cabrera is not legally licensed to be operating as a paid legal consultant or attorney to immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the lawsuit brought against Cabrera by former clients Maria and her husband, Cabrera says he hasn't seen it and could not comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another lawsuit filed last year by a different former client claims, among other things, that Cabrera abandoned the man on the eve of a deportation hearing -- promising and then failing to provide an attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not true, it’s not true because the guy is living in this country,” says Cabrera. “It’s never deportation, never. This information is wrong. ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the plaintiff’s attorney, the lawsuit is active and pending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the lawsuits, Cabrera faces numerous complaints with the Los Angeles County Department of Consumer Affairs. But it’s unclear what action, if any, the office is taking against him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Director Brian Stiger says the office is sending immigration services fraud warnings of its own via news conferences, workshops and other public outreach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the deal is too good to be true, it is probably a scam,” says Stiger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says scammers will make impossible promises about Obama’s deportation relief, even though the application process won’t begin for months. Outlaw legal consultants can also charge exorbitant fees for things immigrants might be able to do themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no way to be first in line, there is no guarantee about an application being approved,” explains Stiger. “And many times these immigration consultants, certainly the fraudulent ones, are charging more money than it costs to apply.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca title=\"Los Angeles Office of Consumer Affairs \" href=\"http://da.lacounty.gov/immigration.htm\">The \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://da.lacounty.gov/immigration.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office,\u003c/a> the L.A. city attorney and the California attorney general all pledge to crack down on outlaw immigration service providers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The L.A. 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The Coalicion is facing numerous lawsuits and consumer complaints from former clients.\" width=\"425\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Coalicion-400x455.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Coalicion-800x911.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Coalicion.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An ad for Coalicion Latinoamericana Internacional, a nonprofit legal consultancy that also claims to be an immigrant rights advocate. The Coalicion is facing numerous lawsuits and consumer complaints from former clients. \u003ccite>(Coalicion Latinoamericana Internacional)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Maria says the couple was strung along for weeks with false promises, in a nightmare of bungled paperwork and immigration hearings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was getting suspicious,” says Maria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But (Cabrera) threatened us, saying that he wasn’t to be played with because he was an attorney. And that if we didn’t play by his rules, he could have us deported.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maria says that when she tried to get the couple’s money back, Cabrera refused. 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"content": "\u003cp>President Barack Obama’s \u003ca href=\"recent%20executive%20action\">recent executive action\u003c/a> made it more likely that millions of undocumented immigrants in the United States will have a path to citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Republicans in Congress call the changes “executive overreach” and are \u003ca href=\"http://www.nationaljournal.com/congress/house-gop-centrists-push-back-on-immigration-20150114\">pushing back\u003c/a>. Also this month, for the first time, undocumented immigrants in California will be able to get \u003ca href=\"http://abc7.com/politics/10000-undocumented-immigrants-granted-california-drivers-licenses/474313/\">driver’s licenses\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This weekend, the debate over immigration reform is moving to an unlikely venue -- the opera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/186434168\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mozart’s “\u003ca href=\"http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/366268/The-Marriage-of-Figaro\">The Marriage of Figaro\u003c/a>” is one of the most beloved and widely performed operas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Italian libretto, written by Lorenzo Da Ponte and based on the stage comedy by Pierre Beaumarchais, Figaro is a heroic everyman, and a personal servant to the count.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The count is a sleazy aristocrat pursuing Figaro's bride-to-be, Susana. The couple and the countess team up to expose the count’s efforts to seduce Susana before she marries Figaro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the nutshell of an opera that has delighted audiences for over two centuries. But it didn’t start out as very popular. The storyline, of a servant making a fool of his master, was seen as a challenge to the aristocracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10408435\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/CountAndSusana.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10408435 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/CountAndSusana-400x529.jpg\" alt=\"Craig Colclough as Paul Conti and Maria Elena Altana as Susana.\" width=\"400\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/CountAndSusana-400x529.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/CountAndSusana-800x1059.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/CountAndSusana.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Craig Colclough as Paul Conti and Maria Elena Altana as Susana. \u003ccite>(Ben Gibbs/LA Opera)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The play, when it originally premiered, was actually banned in France for several years because it was considered so subversive,” says Vid Guerrerio, a librettist in Los Angeles. He decided “The Marriage of Figaro” could use a modern take.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My goal was absolutely to kind of brush off some of the dust that’s accumulated over the last, you know, 250 years, and let contemporary audiences really see what a fresh, daring, even dangerous piece of art the original 'Marriage of Figaro' was,” Guerrerio explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Guerrerio’s version, \u003ca href=\"http://www.laopera.org/season/1415-Season-at-a-Glance/Figaro90210/\">“¡Figaro! (90210),”\u003c/a> staged by the LA Opera, Figaro is a handyman and his fiancee, Susana, is a housekeeper. They’re undocumented immigrants working in a Beverly Hills mansion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent rehearsal, Craig Colclough plays the role of the count, now a real estate mogul named Paul Conti. He’s conflicted about whether to help Susana avoid deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For just a few thousand dollars I can save her, but does that mean it’s the right thing to do?\" Colclough sings. “She made a contract, and contracts must be respected. Plus, she’s here illegally, it’s all connected. If she pays nothing, no penance, the rule of law in this country goes unprotected!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the next scene, Susana, played by Maria Elena Altany, hatches a plan with her boss’s wife, who’s caught on to her husband’s wandering eye. They decide to trap him in the act by having Susana seduce him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So punish me. I will not try to change it. Tonight we shall arrange it,” Altany sings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wait! Am I hearing you clearly?,” Colclough replies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She sings: “You must punish me severely!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Severely!” He cries out incredulously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10408430\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 440px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Figaro2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10408430\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Figaro2-400x283.jpg\" alt=\"E. Scott Levin as Babayan, with Miki Yamashita (L) as Soon-Yi Nam.\" width=\"440\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Figaro2-400x283.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Figaro2-800x566.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Figaro2.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">E. Scott Levin as Babayan, with Miki Yamashita (L) as Soon-Yi Nam. \u003ccite>(Ben Gibbs/LA Opera)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Figaro” was written as an \u003cem>opera buffa\u003c/em>, a comic opera. The new adaptation received \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/17/arts/music/call-it-the-green-card-of-figaro-with-thanks-to-mozart.html?_r=3&http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/17/arts/music/call-it-the-green-card-of-figaro-withhttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/17/arts/music/call-it-the-green-card-of-figaro-with-thanks-to-mozart.html?_r=3&thanks-to-mozart.html?_r=3&\">high praise\u003c/a> from the New York Times for its humor as well as its underlying drama.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Altany says she relates to the subject matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her grandparents emigrated from Mexico to California’s Central Valley, and though she grew up comfortably in San Francisco, she was always conscious of the difficulties facing many immigrants to the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t imagine the stress of being undocumented, of being afraid to drive or to get your license or to go to school because they might check your papers,\" Altany says. \"You know, it’s really incredible what people go through to be here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \"¡Figaro! (90210)\" Susana crosses the border in exchange for promising to work in a sweatshop, but she manages to escape -- until her old boss comes looking for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She gets out of it, but that’s still hanging over her head all the time, and it’s just a constant fear,” explains Altany. “And I think an issue that’s really important to me as a woman, is that she has to deal with sexual harassment and blackmail, which is such a big issue for Latina communities in L.A., especially those who are undocumented. It’s such a vulnerable population, so easily preyed on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guerrerio says he wanted to put the issue of illegal immigration into an opera in order to humanize it, and take it out of the realm of political debate. Even the character of the count, the selfish real estate tycoon, is given a back story that helps explain his position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10408493\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/FigaroSusana.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/FigaroSusana-400x564.jpg\" alt=\"Jose Adan Perez as Figaro and Maria Elena Altana as Susana.\" width=\"400\" height=\"564\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10408493\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/FigaroSusana-400x564.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/FigaroSusana-800x1129.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/FigaroSusana.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jose Adan Perez as Figaro and Maria Elena Altana as Susana. \u003ccite>(Ben Gibbs/LA Opera)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He still starts, saying, you know, ‘the glue of this great nation is true assimilation,’ ” Guerrerio says. Then Conti sheds some light on his own background. “And the lines are, ‘My folks may not have swum here, but living in a slum here, dad said, son, we are scum here. You must speak like you’re from here,’ ” Guerrerio explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guerrerio says that history elevates Conti from a stock villain. And it also comes from personal experience. Guerrerio grew up in an Italian-American family, where his grandparents forced his parents to speak English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And that was because growing up in the ‘50s, it was absolutely crucial that, ‘You are America, you speak American,’ ” says Guerrerio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The whole concept of \"¡Figaro! (90210),\" Guerrerio says, stemmed from a single moment: seeing a family member yell at an ATM machine because the screen asked, “English or Spanish?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So, for this family member, who had lived through an experience of giving up their family identity, their cultural identity, to become American, this notion that now, America was changing, and you didn’t have to choose, you didn’t have to adapt, you could somehow be multiple things at once, provoked an emotional reaction,” he says. “And I think the emotional reaction was grief.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Figaro and Susana’s boss, Paul Conti, resents it when laws are broken, and perhaps is bitter over forfeiting his culture in the pursuit of assimilation. Guerrerio says this is a real viewpoint that he hopes audiences consider, along with the perspective of the undocumented immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, it’s an opera about people, not policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>LA Opera presents the world premiere staging of \"¡Figaro! (90210)\" at the Barnsdall Gallery Theatre in Los Angeles Jan. 16-18.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>President Barack Obama’s \u003ca href=\"recent%20executive%20action\">recent executive action\u003c/a> made it more likely that millions of undocumented immigrants in the United States will have a path to citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Republicans in Congress call the changes “executive overreach” and are \u003ca href=\"http://www.nationaljournal.com/congress/house-gop-centrists-push-back-on-immigration-20150114\">pushing back\u003c/a>. Also this month, for the first time, undocumented immigrants in California will be able to get \u003ca href=\"http://abc7.com/politics/10000-undocumented-immigrants-granted-california-drivers-licenses/474313/\">driver’s licenses\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This weekend, the debate over immigration reform is moving to an unlikely venue -- the opera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/186434168&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/186434168'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mozart’s “\u003ca href=\"http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/366268/The-Marriage-of-Figaro\">The Marriage of Figaro\u003c/a>” is one of the most beloved and widely performed operas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The storyline, of a servant making a fool of his master, was seen as a challenge to the aristocracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10408435\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/CountAndSusana.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10408435 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/CountAndSusana-400x529.jpg\" alt=\"Craig Colclough as Paul Conti and Maria Elena Altana as Susana.\" width=\"400\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/CountAndSusana-400x529.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/CountAndSusana-800x1059.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/CountAndSusana.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Craig Colclough as Paul Conti and Maria Elena Altana as Susana. \u003ccite>(Ben Gibbs/LA Opera)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The play, when it originally premiered, was actually banned in France for several years because it was considered so subversive,” says Vid Guerrerio, a librettist in Los Angeles. He decided “The Marriage of Figaro” could use a modern take.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My goal was absolutely to kind of brush off some of the dust that’s accumulated over the last, you know, 250 years, and let contemporary audiences really see what a fresh, daring, even dangerous piece of art the original 'Marriage of Figaro' was,” Guerrerio explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Guerrerio’s version, \u003ca href=\"http://www.laopera.org/season/1415-Season-at-a-Glance/Figaro90210/\">“¡Figaro! (90210),”\u003c/a> staged by the LA Opera, Figaro is a handyman and his fiancee, Susana, is a housekeeper. They’re undocumented immigrants working in a Beverly Hills mansion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent rehearsal, Craig Colclough plays the role of the count, now a real estate mogul named Paul Conti. He’s conflicted about whether to help Susana avoid deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For just a few thousand dollars I can save her, but does that mean it’s the right thing to do?\" Colclough sings. “She made a contract, and contracts must be respected. Plus, she’s here illegally, it’s all connected. If she pays nothing, no penance, the rule of law in this country goes unprotected!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the next scene, Susana, played by Maria Elena Altany, hatches a plan with her boss’s wife, who’s caught on to her husband’s wandering eye. They decide to trap him in the act by having Susana seduce him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So punish me. I will not try to change it. Tonight we shall arrange it,” Altany sings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wait! Am I hearing you clearly?,” Colclough replies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She sings: “You must punish me severely!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Severely!” He cries out incredulously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10408430\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 440px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Figaro2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10408430\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Figaro2-400x283.jpg\" alt=\"E. Scott Levin as Babayan, with Miki Yamashita (L) as Soon-Yi Nam.\" width=\"440\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Figaro2-400x283.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Figaro2-800x566.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Figaro2.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">E. 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The new adaptation received \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/17/arts/music/call-it-the-green-card-of-figaro-with-thanks-to-mozart.html?_r=3&http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/17/arts/music/call-it-the-green-card-of-figaro-withhttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/17/arts/music/call-it-the-green-card-of-figaro-with-thanks-to-mozart.html?_r=3&thanks-to-mozart.html?_r=3&\">high praise\u003c/a> from the New York Times for its humor as well as its underlying drama.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Altany says she relates to the subject matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her grandparents emigrated from Mexico to California’s Central Valley, and though she grew up comfortably in San Francisco, she was always conscious of the difficulties facing many immigrants to the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t imagine the stress of being undocumented, of being afraid to drive or to get your license or to go to school because they might check your papers,\" Altany says. \"You know, it’s really incredible what people go through to be here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \"¡Figaro! 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"content": "\u003cp>By now you’ve probably heard of \u003ca href=\"http://wholegrainscouncil.org/node/5889/print\" target=\"_blank\">quinoa,\u003c/a> the protein-packed grain that’s becoming a staple on restaurant menus. Your default might be to head to Whole Foods to buy it. But if you live in Los Angeles, you can just grab some from the side of the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wild quinoa grows all over L.A. It’s actually thriving, despite the drought. And that’s caught \u003ca href=\"http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rick_Jellen/publications\" target=\"_blank\">Rick Jellen’s\u003c/a> attention. He’s a plant geneticist at Brigham Young University, and he thinks this roadside weed could help feed the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pick your dinner on Mulholland Drive\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not like a pristine habitat or anything, not by any stretch of the imagination,” says Jellen, raising his voice above the traffic. We’re standing on the side of a windy, two-lane road in Los Angeles, not far from Mulholland Drive. Not exactly a pastoral paradise, but it’s ideal for what we’re trying to find: pitseed goosefoot, also known as wild quinoa. It’s growing all around us, just a foot or two from the pavement: thin stalks, about shin height, with purplish gray seeds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/178056951\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People don’t recognize this as a genetic resource,” says Jellen, funneling small seeds into a tiny manila envelope. “They recognize it as a weed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jellen’s a little obsessed with this weed. When he spots wild quinoa on the side of the road, he beelines for it, swerving across oncoming traffic while cheerfully saying things like, “Let’s hope we don’t get T-boned!” He’s a plant guy, so he might be this fascinated no matter what. But we should pay attention, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grocery-store quinoa is mainly farmed in the Andes in South America. It is adapted to that climate. But wild quinoa grows all over the place, in all kinds of conditions. As the climate shifts and growing conditions change, the hunt is on for foods that can survive challenges like extreme heat and prolonged drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jellen thinks wild quinoa is one of these foods. Los Angeles, in its fourth year of drought, is a real-life laboratory. And right now, the wild-quinoa experiment looks like a success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wild relatives\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are teams of scientists around the world collecting the wild relatives of many common crops, not just quinoa. These plants contain genetic secrets that could help all our food. But it’s a long way from the side of the road to your dinner table. Plant breeding can take decades, and in the meantime, someone has to keep an eye on the samples we have and make sure they stay alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10350798\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 315px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/WildQuinoaGrows.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10350798\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/WildQuinoaGrows-400x586.jpg\" alt=\"Wild quinoa growing by the side of a Los Angeles road near Mulholland Drive. 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It smells a little like pasta sauce, but in some cases that’s the only clue that you’re looking at tomatoes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chetelat's mentor was the scientist \u003ca href=\"http://tgrc.ucdavis.edu/charlie.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Charles Rick,\u003c/a> who collected a lot of the tomatoes in here from places where you’d never imagine a tomato growing. For example, Chetelat shows me one variety that doesn’t ripen, exactly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fruit are probably about the size of a pea, abut the color of a pea, too. They're green and they never turn red,” he says. “They slowly dehydrate and they become like an eggshell.” That one’s called S\u003cem>olanum lycopersicoides – \u003c/em>the Peruvian Wolfpeach. It’s a very distant relative of the cultivated tomato and grows only at 10,000 feet in a bone-dry desert. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Ali Winston\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong> The Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_148537\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-148537\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/labiometric2-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"Without public notice, Los Angeles County law enforcement officials are building a massive database of biometric information, including iris scans. (KNBC)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Without public notice, Los Angeles County law enforcement officials are building a massive database of biometric information, including iris scans. (KNBC)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Without notice to the public, Los Angeles County law enforcement officials are preparing to widen what personal information they collect from on people they encounter by building a massive database of iris scans, fingerprints, mug shots, palm prints and, potentially, voice recordings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new database of personal information, dubbed a multimodal biometric identification system, would augment the county's existing database of fingerprint records and create the largest law enforcement repository outside of the FBI of so-called next-generation biometric identification, according to county sheriff’s department documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sept. 15, the FBI announced that the Next Generation Identification System was fully operational. Now that the central infrastructure is in place, the next phase is for local jurisdictions across the country to update their own information-gathering systems to the FBI's standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the system is up and running in L.A., any law enforcement official working in the county, including the Los Angeles Police Department, would collect biometric information on people who are booked into county jails or by using mobile devices in the field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This would occur even when people are stopped for lesser offenses or pulled over for minor traffic violations, according to documents obtained by The Center for Investigative Reporting through a public records request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials with the sheriff’s department, which operates the countywide system, said the biometric information would be retained indefinitely – regardless of whether the person in question is convicted of the crime for which he or she was arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The system is expected to be fully operational in two or three years, according to the sheriff’s department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_148535\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 320px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-148535\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/labiometric1-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"A Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy demonstrates a mobile fingerprint reader. Officials say biometric information would be retained indefinitely. (KNBC-TV)\" width=\"320\" height=\"180\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy demonstrates a mobile fingerprint reader. Officials say biometric information would be retained indefinitely. (KNBC-TV)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All of this is happening without hearings or public input, yet technology companies already are bidding to build the system, interviews and documents show. Officials would not disclose the expected cost of the project or which companies are bidding but said it would be a multimillion-dollar undertaking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new system is being readied as the public has become increasingly concerned about privacy invasions by the government, corporations and Internet sources. Privacy advocates worry the public is losing any sense of control over the widespread collection of data on its purchases, travel habits, friendships, health, business transactions and personal communications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, cities and counties across the country are facing renewed scrutiny for accepting the transfer of military technology from the Pentagon. The national biometric database is part of the transition of military-grade technologies and information-gathering strategies from the Pentagon to civilian law enforcement. During the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq over the past decade, the U.S. military collected and stored biometric information on millions of civilians and militants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2008, President George W. Bush required the Defense, Homeland Security and Justice departments to establish common standards for collecting and sharing biometric information like iris scans and photos optimized for facial recognition. Law enforcement agencies have been testing mobile systems for documenting biometric information, including a facial recognition program uncovered in San Diego County last fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authorities in California already collect DNA swabs from arrestees booked into county jails, a practice upheld last year by the U.S. Supreme Court and this year by a federal appeals court in California. Dozens of other states also collect DNA samples from arrestees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Documents from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department show its database will house information on up to 15 million subjects, giving the department a major stake in the Next Generation Identification program, a billion-dollar update to the FBI’s national fingerprint database and the largest information technology project in the history of the U.S. Department of Justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For privacy advocates, the development of the Los Angeles biometric system without any public oversight or debate and an indefinite data retention policy are causes for concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeramie Scott, national security counsel for the Electronic Privacy Information Center, said it’s critical for the public to be aware that this new technology is being rolled out, because the information held by law enforcement poses unique threats to privacy and anonymity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Biometric data is something you cannot change if it is compromised,” Scott said. “There are privacy and civil liberties implications that come from law enforcement having multiple ways to identify someone without their consent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott, whose organization has sued the FBI to release information related to Next General Identification, added: “It becomes a one-sided debate when law enforcement alone is making that decision to use new technologies on the public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hamid Khan, an organizer with the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition who studies police surveillance, said the arrival of Next Generation Identification means Los Angeles is now a frontier in the battle for privacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now our whole bodies are up for grabs,” Khan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The multimodal biometric system under development by the sheriff’s department will collect four out of the five “inputs” used by the Next Generation Identification program – fingerprints, mug shots, iris scans and palm prints. Voice recordings are the fifth input.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The L.A. system is designed to transmit and receive data to and from the FBI and the California Department of Justice, which has its own biometric database.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Originally announced in 2008, Next Generation Identification is being rolled out across the country this year after pilot projects were carried out in Michigan, Maryland, Texas, Maine and New Mexico. About 17 million facial records already were integrated into Next Generation Identification as of January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, residents and city officials in Compton were outraged that Los Angeles County sheriff’s officials had experimented with a cutting-edge aerial surveillance tool known as wide-area surveillance without any prior public notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people do have a problem with the eye in the sky, the Big Brother, so in order to mitigate any of those kinds of complaints, we basically kept it pretty hush-hush,” sheriff’s Sgt. Douglas Iketani told CIR earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheriff’s Lt. 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Gang officers routinely submit fingerprints, mug shots and photographs of tattoos and unique scars of suspected gang members to the statewide CalGang database, which contains information on over 13o,000 individuals statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The national biometric database also has come under fire from privacy advocates and civil libertarians because it is being implemented without a thorough study of its impact on privacy – which is required by federal law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They need to do this before any pilot programs, of which they've done two for facial recognition and iris recognition,” Scott said. “They're not meeting their legal obligations, which is now being followed up by state and local authorities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khan, of the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, said such sensitive information in the hands of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department raises further questions about oversight and information security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we look at the multiple contractors and subcontractors and who will have access to this information,” he said, “the whole issue of identity theft comes to mind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was edited by Robert Salladay and copy edited by Nikki Frick and Christine Lee.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This story was produced by The Center for Investigative Reporting, an independent, nonprofit newsroom based in the San Francisco Bay Area. 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Officials say biometric information would be retained indefinitely. (KNBC-TV)\" width=\"320\" height=\"180\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy demonstrates a mobile fingerprint reader. Officials say biometric information would be retained indefinitely. (KNBC-TV)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All of this is happening without hearings or public input, yet technology companies already are bidding to build the system, interviews and documents show. Officials would not disclose the expected cost of the project or which companies are bidding but said it would be a multimillion-dollar undertaking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new system is being readied as the public has become increasingly concerned about privacy invasions by the government, corporations and Internet sources. Privacy advocates worry the public is losing any sense of control over the widespread collection of data on its purchases, travel habits, friendships, health, business transactions and personal communications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, cities and counties across the country are facing renewed scrutiny for accepting the transfer of military technology from the Pentagon. The national biometric database is part of the transition of military-grade technologies and information-gathering strategies from the Pentagon to civilian law enforcement. During the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq over the past decade, the U.S. military collected and stored biometric information on millions of civilians and militants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2008, President George W. Bush required the Defense, Homeland Security and Justice departments to establish common standards for collecting and sharing biometric information like iris scans and photos optimized for facial recognition. Law enforcement agencies have been testing mobile systems for documenting biometric information, including a facial recognition program uncovered in San Diego County last fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authorities in California already collect DNA swabs from arrestees booked into county jails, a practice upheld last year by the U.S. Supreme Court and this year by a federal appeals court in California. Dozens of other states also collect DNA samples from arrestees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Documents from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department show its database will house information on up to 15 million subjects, giving the department a major stake in the Next Generation Identification program, a billion-dollar update to the FBI’s national fingerprint database and the largest information technology project in the history of the U.S. Department of Justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For privacy advocates, the development of the Los Angeles biometric system without any public oversight or debate and an indefinite data retention policy are causes for concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeramie Scott, national security counsel for the Electronic Privacy Information Center, said it’s critical for the public to be aware that this new technology is being rolled out, because the information held by law enforcement poses unique threats to privacy and anonymity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Biometric data is something you cannot change if it is compromised,” Scott said. “There are privacy and civil liberties implications that come from law enforcement having multiple ways to identify someone without their consent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott, whose organization has sued the FBI to release information related to Next General Identification, added: “It becomes a one-sided debate when law enforcement alone is making that decision to use new technologies on the public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hamid Khan, an organizer with the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition who studies police surveillance, said the arrival of Next Generation Identification means Los Angeles is now a frontier in the battle for privacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now our whole bodies are up for grabs,” Khan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The multimodal biometric system under development by the sheriff’s department will collect four out of the five “inputs” used by the Next Generation Identification program – fingerprints, mug shots, iris scans and palm prints. 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"content": "\u003cp>http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2014/08/2014-08-29d-tcrmag.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A ganglion is a cluster of nerve cells. \"Ganglion Reef\" is the title of the debut album from the Los Angeles band Wand. If that makes you expect some sensory overload, you’d be right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The quartet brings spirit, style and appealing pop sensibilities to the world of fuzzed-out, DIY psychedelia. But it also brings wit and whimsy, as the song titles “Flying Golem” and “Strange Inertia (Cntl Alt Death)” make plain. Throughout this album, the band is as equally inclined to poke fun at its chosen genre as it is to embrace it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But of course if “Strange Inertia”and “Flying Golem” were only whimsy, they wouldn’t, well, fly. The thing is, these are good songs. Wand may joke, but this is no joke act. And the band does embrace the genre: Right from the start, with the album’s opening song “Send/Receive (Mind),” Wand firmly sets the controls for the heart of the sun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen to \"Flying Golem\":\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/151929554\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early Pink Floyd, the Syd Barrett years in particular, are at the heart of Wand’s sun. Frontman Cory Hanson has affection for and affinity with Barrett’s askew, lysergic bent. But a range of psychedelic styles get the nod here: “Clearer” recalls Status Quo’s ‘60s classic “Pictures of Matchstick Men”—and while it’s hard to make out the lyrics, it sounds like Hanson sings something about Lucy? Maybe in the skies? Distinct lyrics are not the Wand's strong point, nor really the point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the context of the current, vibrant California fuzz-rock scene, Wand at times leans closer to the pop fun of fellow Angelenos Foxygen than to tireless garage-savant Ty Segall, who is putting this album out on his new GOD? Records label and taking the band on tour as his opening act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where Wand comes into its own is in some of the textures, including places where Hanson adds occasional electronic noises to the guitar-centric sound — think Brian Eno in early \u003ca href=\"http://www.roxymusic.co.uk/\" target=\"_blank\">Roxy Music\u003c/a>, not Rick Wakeman in Yes. And there are signs of ambition to balance the whimsy: “Fire On the Mountain” goes through several phases in the course of its five minutes, from floaty to funky-bouncy to freak-folky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ganglion Reef ends with “Generator Larping,” its longest and most sonically refined piece, a closing note pointing to a world of possibilities. Not that we’re predicting this will be the next Radiohead, let alone Pink Floyd. Of course, Radiohead has never really been known for a sense of humor. Nor has Pink Floyd. Maybe that will be the Wand magic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More: \u003ca href=\"http://www.dragcity.com/artists/wand\" target=\"_blank\">About Wand (DragCity.com)\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The biggest fear of any home studio owner is coming under the scrutiny of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A professional recording studio is not allowed in a residential zone,” says Luke Zamperini, the chief building inspector for the city of Los Angeles. “The zoning code specifies it needs to be in a commercial zone, but that doesn’t mean that one can’t have a recording studio in their home for their own personal use.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he’s not inspecting buildings, Zamperini likes to strap on a guitar himself. In fact, in the mid-‘70’s he toured in the band Sparks. 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Before his current gig, Gallaher was a 1980s hair metal practitioner with a band called Liquor Sweet. He still has the piercings and tats to prove it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, for the sellers, it doesn’t create a lot of value,” he explains. “It’s not like remodeling a kitchen. The average Joe obviously isn’t going to see any value in a pre-existing studio.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Musician Vincent Jones has worked with names like Morrissey and Alanis Morissette, and has been Sarah McLachlan’s musical director since 1997. He also co-wrote, arranged and recorded the theme to “Parks and Recreation,” using only a laptop on a dining room table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones’s current workspace is a bit more elaborate. Part of his rented home, the 900-square-foot studio, began life as a guesthouse. 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As Pete says, now any kid with a computer, a credit card and a bedroom can call himself a producer.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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